Chapter Fifty-Nine: String Moon Township
"Spring and Jingming, the waves are not alarming, the sky is bright, and the sky is blue."
This is Fan Zhongyan's description of Dongting Lake in "The Story of Yueyang Tower", Pan Xiaogu has never been to Dongting Lake, but at this moment he feels that the scene in front of him is very close to the scene depicted in the poem.
The lake is as vast as the sea, and the lake meets the blue sky in the distance, leaving a conspicuous dividing line on the horizon.
The water on the lake is not rippling, and when you are boating on the lake, you will not feel a trace of turbulence, and from time to time there will be fish floating on the water, leaving a little ripple on the lake.
According to the Ruan brothers, the lake is the largest of all the lakes in the vicinity, with several rivers flowing into it, most of which are tributaries of the Phan Duong River, and are also connected to many surrounding lakes, and the main outlet of the lake is more than 50 miles downstream of the inlet.
The location of the leyline node given by the system is near the outlet of the Great Lake.
The boat that Pan Xiaogu and his party were riding was following a tributary of the Panyang River into the Great Lake, and their destination was precisely the location of the leyline node where the second territory was to be established.
"Stop the boat!" When the fleet came to the water surface about ten kilometers away from the mouth of the lake, Pan Xiaogu suddenly received a prompt from the system, telling him that he had arrived at the location of the leyline node and could use the territory certificate to establish a new territory
Pan Xiaogu looked at the surrounding environment, and there was not a single piece of land in sight as far as the naked eye could see, there was all water around it, what kind of territory to build? Ryugu?
Pan Xiaogu looked confused
"Are you not mistaken? Can this place build a territory? "The nearest shores of the lake are ten kilometers away, and you tell me to build a territory here?
"There is no mistake, you are directly above the leyline node, with your current position as the center of the circle, you can use the territory certificate to establish a territory within fifty meters."
Fifty meters? You're kidding me, it's water fifty meters away, what's the use?
"I mean, you have to find a piece of land or something, you can't just build your territory in the water, right?" Pan Xiaogu patiently explained to the system.
"It doesn't matter, after you use the territory certificate, the land will naturally appear."
Pan Xiaogu took out the territorial voucher suspiciously, this thing looks a bit like a scroll of holy decrees in film and television dramas, but the color is not golden yellow but turquoise, the voucher is rolled up, and there is a seal full of mysterious runes wrapped around the top, the seal can only be torn off on the leyline node, and after tearing it off, it is considered to activate the territory voucher.
Except for Pan Xiaogu, no one else could see this thing.
Pan Xiaogu stood at the bow of the boat with the scroll, very hesitant in his heart, if this was the system cheating him, this hard-won certificate might be scrapped.
"Adults beware of falling overboard." Ruan Xiaoer, who was driving the boat, kindly reminded that he couldn't see the scroll in Pan Xiaogu's hand, he could only see Pan Xiaogu standing on the side of the boat, looking at the lake in a daze.
If it's scrapped, it's scrapped, and it's a big deal to get another one later!
Pan Xiaogu no longer hesitated, and tore off the seal wrapped around the scroll.
As soon as the seal was torn open, the territorial certificate turned into a white light and flew out of Pan Xiaogu's hand, passed through the plank of the ship under his feet, and disappeared into the water. This white light is the same as the system scroll, no one can see it except Pan Xiaogu, it is very magical, but...
That's it? What about the territory that was promised?
Pan Xiaogu stared at the place where the white light disappeared a little dumbfounded, suddenly, Pan Xiaogu noticed that a white spot of light appeared on the lake next to the boat, and as soon as it appeared, it began to grow rapidly, at first it was only the size of a palm, but it soon became larger than the boat, and the speed of expansion became faster and faster, and soon all the water surface as far as Pan Xiaogu's eyes could see was emitting white light.
This kind of white light Pan Xiaogu is too familiar, it is the white light that envelops the settlement every time it is upgraded, and whenever this white light appears, the people around him seem to be frozen by time.
Pan Xiaogu looked around, and sure enough, except for him, everyone else was motionless.
Suddenly, white light suddenly rose from the surface of the lake, and soon enveloped Pan Xiaogu in it, and his vision was full of white light, which made his eyes very uncomfortable, so he had to close his eyes temporarily.
I don't know how long it took, Pan Xiaogu suddenly heard Pan Hu's shouts beside him.
"Sir, there's a big island ahead."
Pan Xiaogu opened his eyes and found that the fleet had been moved to the vicinity of the mouth of the lake at some point, and in front of them, where it should have been the surface of the lake, a huge island had appeared.
At the same time, Pan Xiaogu also received a prompt from the system
"Gain a new township-level territory, please name it!"
Wait a minute, let me see what the territory looks like.
The newly emerged islands are too large to be seen in their entirety from the surface of the lake
Pan Xiaogu impatiently opened the territory map, and sure enough, the map of the new territory had appeared, but to his surprise, the terrain on the map seemed to be different from what he knew, no, it should be said that it was very different.
According to the Ruan brothers, the mouth of the lower reaches of the lake should only be about one mile wide, but now he can see on the system map that the width of the mouth of the downstream lake is at least eight or nine miles wide; In addition, the area on the south side of Dahu Lake, where the Ruan brothers often lived, should only be more than 40 miles wide from east to west, while the width of this area on the map is nearly 60 miles wide.
If the memory of the Ruan brothers is not reliable, there is also evidence that the terrain has changed, the system map has the terrain that can include the places where Pan Xiaogu passed, and by comparing the map before and after the appearance of the new territory, you can clearly see that the terrain near the territory has indeed changed, as if in the middle of a group of people, a new person is forced in, and naturally squeezes the others around, and the changes on the map give people such a feeling.
Pan Xiaogu seemed to understand a little bit about how the new earth had become bigger
Originally, the mouth of the lake was expanded so much that the lake water may quickly flow into Panyang Lake, causing the water level of the lake to drop. However, the location of the new territory solves this problem. The new territory is an island shaped like a lying crescent moon, like a plug that plugs the enlarged mouth of the lake, leaving only a waterway more than 100 meters wide and more than ten miles long on each side, effectively controlling the water output of the lake.
"Since the shape of the new territory resembles a round of the String Moon, then the new territory will be called the Quarter Moon Township." Pan Xiaogu muttered to himself
"The new territory has been named successfully, and the interface of the territory of String Moon Township has been opened!" As soon as Pan Xiaogu finished speaking, the system sent a new message.
While ordering someone to dock the boat to the shore of Xianyue Township, Pan Xiaogu opened the interface of the new territory to check the basic information of Qixianyue Township.